1. My passion translates my conscience,
And my love can replace eloquence.

2. How many states are translated by silence,
Which conveys the utterances of the tongue.

3. Illness has assaulted me, and I have wasted away in yearning.
If you look closely, you will not see me.

4. I am like a dead man in the garb of the living,
And I know not in what state I find myself.

5. My heart burns with jealousy.
It is sick, not comforted by songs.

6. And the night the caravan travelled until morning
To the meadows of Wasit and revelry.

7. And I bid farewell to Iraq where we chose the best horses
That race in threes and eights.

8. And we had nights in Iraq
That we stole from the pocket of time.

9. And for Ubaydah’s mother I would sacrifice my soul,
My body, and my gathered self.

10. I die for the one who dwells there, and I live
To bid farewell, my friends, and meet me.

11. Do not ask me of my affairs,
For my affairs are not of the wink of an eye.

12. I am possessed by a burning, yearning love
That has taken hold of my heart and even my tenderness.

13. Why not, when it fills the wilds
With guidance, and by it the horizons shine.

14. Abu al-Alamein, attractor of manifestations,
Descendant of Mustafa, succor of the age.

15. Leader of saints, living and dead,
And the foremost of all in every moment.

16. Of long standing, master of every pole,
Axis of both mankind and jinn.

17. You climbed to the peaks of glory
And your dust transcended the sand dunes.

18. Will time fell me when I have the reins
By the rope of his noble rein?

19. The Messenger said, "Trust in the Master's protection,"
So whoever is under Ahmad's guarantee is under my protection.

20. And there he dressed me in robes of honor
And appointed me over the people of all eras.

21. And my master al-Rifaa'i said to me,
"Take charge of the matter without delay."

22. So he brought me close and honored my affairs,
And let me drink from his chalices.

23. So I was absent from existence and absent from myself,
And from my veil and the meaning of my being.

24. This matter, of folding and unfolding,
Is a fabric of lowering and rising.

25. Symbols for the hopeful, manifestations
Revealed by the Master of the Seven Odes.

26. Remember, may God guide you, a state
In the chamber of Umm Hani with the Guide.

27. And tear apart every coat you are wearing
And submit to the Bountiful, the Helper.

28. For what is above dust returns to it
While the rest of the matter was not given to anyone vain.